Board member Kizan suggested we look at the downtime system introduced in Ultimate Campaign.

“I’m getting ready to start a the new adventure Dragon’s Demand with my home group. I very much want to use the Downtime system presented in Ultimate Campaign, but after a read through I still don’t understand it as well as I’d like. Could you guys go over that system at some depth?”

·PCs are not on nonstop adventures. Just like there are no rules for unexciting things during adventures, like having to pee or dealing with the soul-crushing guilt of how many lives you’ve seen end, there were no rules for the unexciting things between adventures, like paying mortgage or raise children.

Why Downtime?

·What a character does between adventures can be more important to who that character is than what she does on adventures;

oLois & Clark

·There are organic situations that grow out of adventuring that can only be explored between adventures;

oThe tavern;

oRelationships

§Save the princess, then what? Discard her? Save her again?

·Fable

How Downtime Works

·At its core, Downtime uses days as a currency, a long term action, in which you can perform Downtime activities, gain income, and deal with unexpected happenings, in four phases.

·There are four Downtime capital broaden concepts already in the game: Goods, Influence, Labour, and Magic.

·There are two types of activities during Downtime: activities that involve Downtime capital, and activities that do not involve Downtime capital.

·If everyone is only interested in activities that do not involve Downtime capital, don’t worry about the Downtime phase sequence. These activities include:

oAdd Spells to Your Spellbook*

oCraft Magic Items*

oCraft Mundane Items*

oEarn XP

oGather Information

oHeal Others

oReplace Your Animal Companion

oResearch a Spell*

oResearch Facts and Lore

oRest

oRetrain*

oTrain an Animal

·A lot of items on that list include as asterix. That’s because these rules already exist in the game and can be run as is. However, Ultimate Campaign introduces variants that use Downtime capital.

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